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Monumental money : people and places on U.S. paper money / by Arkin, Yigal.(CARDINAL)686209;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Bank notes; Paper money; Portraits on bank notes.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The official blackbook price guide to United States paper money / by Hudgeons, Marc.(CARDINAL)513209; Hudgeons, Tom.(CARDINAL)145330;
Subjects: Catalogs.; Paper money;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The life of Gouverneur Morris, with selections from his correspondence and miscellaneous papers; detailing events in the American revolution, the French revolution, and in the political history of the United States. / by Sparks, Jared,1789-1866.(CARDINAL)125841;
V.1 Life and correspondence. Publications, by Gouverneur Morris. -- v.2 Correspondence, official and private, respecting a negotiation with the British ministry. Correspondence, official and private, concerning the French revolution and the affairs of France. Letters and miscellaneous papers relating to French affairs. -- v.3 Miscellaneous Correspondence during the residence of Mr Morris in Europe. Correspondence after the return of Mr Morris from Europe, on private and political affairs in the United States. Speeches delivered in the Senate of the United States. Address to the assembly of Pennsylvania, on the abolition of the bank of North America. Observations on the Finances of the United States in the year 1789. Notes on a form of a constitution for France. Index of letters.
Subjects: Biographies.; Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816.; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Wings of the dove / by James, Henry,1843-1916.(CARDINAL)137535; Brooks, Peter,1938-(CARDINAL)723948;
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction -- Note on the text -- Further reading -- Chronology of Henry James -- Preface by Henry James -- The Wings of the Dove -- Appendix : From James's notebook -- Notes -- Selected variant readings.Confronting a Bronzino portrait in an English country house, a young American heiress comes face to face with her own predicament. For Milly Theale, who seems to have the world before her and at her feet, is fatally ill. Eager for life, eager for love, she embarks on her European adventure, warming to the admiration of her new friends Kate Croy and Merton Densher. But Merton and Kate are secretly engaged, and come to see in this angel with a thumping bank account as a solution to their own problems. For the remarkable Kate, scheming, passionate, poetic, also wants to live. - Publisher.1190L
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Fiction.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Young women; Americans; Americans; Terminally ill; Love triangles.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The four lost men : the previously unpublished long version / by Wolfe, Thomas,1900-1938.(CARDINAL)141253; Bruccoli, Arlyn.(CARDINAL)207413; Bruccoli, Matthew J.(Matthew Joseph),1931-2008.;
Includes bibliographical references.The four lost men: long version -- The bank failure -- The manuscripts and typescripts -- Textual notes -- Explanatory notes -- The four lost men: From death to morning version -- The four lost men: substantive variants between previously published versions.This is the long version of Thomas Wolfe's story of familial and national reflection, set during the First World War. It offers a portrait of the author's dying father, as well as a discussion of the title characters--Presidents James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, and Rutherford B. Hayes--providing Wolfe with an opportunity to assess the mood and promise of the nation and to reflect on the obstacles to untapped American potential on the verge of the United States' entry into a broadening global conflict.
Subjects: Fiction.; American literature.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The settlement of the German coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German descent / by Deiler, J. Hanno(John Hanno),1849-1909.(CARDINAL)174526;
Researchers interested in the early German and Swiss settlers of Louisiana, and particularly in that area along the Mississippi west of New Orleans known as the German Coast, should begin with this source. Deiler devotes the preliminary sections of this work to the early German families and their settlements in Louisiana. Nearly one-half of the book lists, along with genealogical notices, some 2,000 "Names of German Habitants on Both Banks of the Mississippi Above New Orleans," as based on the official census of 1724, and a roster of "Additional German Names . . . Not in the [1794] Census." Included among these families, it should be noted, are Germans from Maryland and Creoles of German descent.--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Family histories.; German Americans; Creoles;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Notes from an apocalypse : a personal journey to the end of the world and back / by O'Connell, Mark,1979-author.(CARDINAL)339875;
Tribulations -- Preparations -- Luxury survival -- Bolthole -- Off-world colony -- Under the hide -- The final resting place of the future -- The redness of the map."By the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine, a deeply considered look at the people and places in confrontation with the end of our days -- We're alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny, volatile. Our old post-war alliances are crumbling. Everywhere you look there's an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the world. How are we to live in the shadow of such a grim future? What does the world hold for our children? What might it be like to live through the worst? And what is anybody doing about it? Dublin-based writer Mark O'Connell ("wryly humorous, cogently insightful"--NPR) is possessed by these questions. In Notes from an Apocalypse, he crosses the globe in pursuit of answers. He tours survival bunkers in South Dakota. He ventures to New Zealand, a favored retreat of billionaires banking on civilization's collapse. And he bears witness to those places where the future has already arrived--real-life portraits of the end of the world as we know it. In doing so, he offers us a unique window into our apocalyptic imagination. Part tour, part pilgrimage, Notes from an Apocalypse is an affecting and hopeful meditation on our alarming present tense. With insight, humanity, and wit, O'Connell leaves you to wonder: What if the end of the world isn't the end of the world?"--
Subjects: Survivalism.; Emergency management;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 10
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Rock, paper, scissors : and other stories / by Osipov, Maksim,author.(CARDINAL)815315; Dralyuk, Boris,editor,translator.(CARDINAL)503351;
Includes bibliographical references.The cry of the domestic fowl : in lieu of a foreword -- Moscow-Petrozavodsk -- The gypsy -- Rock, paper, scissors -- Renaissance man -- The waves of the sea -- Polish friend -- The mill -- After eternity : the notes of a literary director -- On the banks of the spree -- Good people -- Objects in mirror.Maxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia's best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety and striking insight. Osipov's fiction presents a nuanced, collage-like portrait of life in provincial Russia--its tragedies, frustrations, and moments of humble beauty and inspiration. The twelve stories in this volume depict doctors, actors, screenwriters, teachers, entrepreneurs, local political bosses, and common criminals whose paths intersect in unpredictable yet entirely natural ways: in sickrooms, classrooms, administrative offices and on trains and in planes. Their encounters lead to disasters, major and minor epiphanies, and--on occasion--the promise of redemption.
Subjects: Short stories.; Osipov, Maksim; City and town life;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Henri Cartier-Bresson : photographer / by Cartier-Bresson, Henri,1908-2004,photographer.(CARDINAL)134510; Bonnefoy, Yves,writer of preface.(CARDINAL)295665;
Includes bibliographical references and filmography.Reproduced in exquisite black and white, the images in this book range from Henri Cartier-Bresson's earliest work in France, Spain, and Mexico through his postwar travels in Asia, the US, and Russia, and even include landscapes from the 1970s, when he retired his camera to pursue drawing. While his instinct for capturing what he called the decisive moment was unparalleled, as a photojournalist Cartier-Bresson was uniquely concerned with the human impact of historic events. In his photographs of the liberation of France from the Nazis, the death of Ghandi, and the creation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Cartier-Bresson focused on the reactions of the crowds rather than the subjects of the events. And while his portraits of Sartre, Giacometti, Faulkner, Capote, and other artists are iconic, he gave equal attention to those forgotten by history: a dead resistance fighter lying on the bank of the Rhine, children playing alongside the Berlin Wall, and a eunuch in Peking's Imperial Court. Divided into six thematic sections, the book presents the photographs in spare double-page spreads. In a handwritten note included at the end of the book, Cartier-Bresson writes, "In order to give meaning to the world, one must feel involved in what one singles out through the viewfinder." His work shows how he has been able to capture the decisive moment with such extreme humility and profound humanity.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-2004; Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-2004; Photography, Artistic; Black-and-white photography.;
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Big midnight special [sound recording] / by Cooper, Wilma Lee,1921-2011,performer.; Cooper, Stoney,1918-1977,performer.;
Wilma Lee Cooper, vocals, guitar ; Stoney Cooper, vocals, fiddle ; with instrumental and vocal acc.Recorded 1947-1964, principally in Nashville, Tenn.
Subjects: Bluegrass music.; Country music.; Old-time music.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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